Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Author:Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2001-07-15T00:00:00+00:00


The “South Seas”—Hawaii and Easter Island—the Aleutians—the Maldives—Malta—Minoan Crete—Venice

“Why in God’s name would they [Aleutian Islanders] want to come out here, unless they were nuts?” Red shook his head, and answered his own question. “Guess they’re just nuts. ”

—T. BANK II, Birthplace of the Winds

All of us, without exception, live on islands. But some of these islands on our planet are so much larger than others that we have decided to let them belong to a class of their own and have called them “continents.”

—Van Loon’s Geography



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